There's nothing revolutionary in this release, but there are enough improvements that the rollup will make your IT life much easier. System Center is key to Microsoft's vision of the cloud OS and its ...

Microsoft and VMware are in pitched battle in the private cloud space. Both are worthwhile contenders, so how do you pick the right one for your project? There's a lot to like in both Windows Server ...

[ Editor’s note: This article has been revised to underscore the fact that we tested VMware vSphere with vCenter Server but we tested Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V without System Center 2012, and ...

Microsoft quietly announced a new timeline and pricing for the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008, the tool intended to manage Hyper-V, Network World reports. The company posted this information in ...

Hyper-V comes with its own manager, but System Center Virtual Machine Manager R2 may be what your VMs really need This week I’m at the Connections conference in Las Vegas, and the buzz is all about ...

When the dust settled in the lab after two long months of testing Microsoft’s Hyper-V and VMware’s ESX in the areas of performance, compatibility, management, and security, it all boiled down to two ...

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